This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: NYT
Dec 6, 2017
Some think Prime Minister Hun Sen considers himself the reincarnation of a 16th-century ruler. Recently built statues certainly suggest a resemblance.
Source: NYT
Dec 5, 2017
By denying deductions for state and local taxes, the Republicans seek to force high-tax states run by Democrats to capitulate.
Source: NYT
Dec 5, 2017
A number of young activists are busily putting together protests — a silent kneel-in, possibly, or a street demonstration — in a parallel of the history chronicled in the museum itself.
Source: WSJ
Dec 5, 2017
Bank executive met with nearly every world leader for 50 years, filled out some 200,000 note cards.
Source: The Post and Courier
Dec 5, 2017
The university's trustees voted in April to erect the markers, in part a response to student protests in 2015 that bemoaned the lack of emphasis on diversity on campus.
Source: CBS News
Dec 5, 2017
For nearly 70 years, one man has pointed his lens at the country's most important events and people. When Bobby Kennedy was shot, Harry Benson was there.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 4, 2017
Trump’s personal lawyer John Dowd sought to excuse the president’s tweet in part by telling Axios and NBC News on Monday that the “president cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under [the Constitution’s Article II] and has every right to express his view of any case.”
Source: NYT
Dec 4, 2017
Drawing support from moderate liberal Republicans and liberal Democrats, Mr. Anderson held the spotlight for a while before voters turned to candidates who they believed could actually win.
Source: The Los Angeles Times
Dec 4, 2017
The president’s actions were a dramatic departure from conventional interpretations of the 1906 Antiquities Act, on which the monument designations are based.
Source: NYT
Dec 3, 2017
Here’s the history.
Source: US Department of Defense
Dec 3, 2017
During a speech to the Reagan National Defense Forum yesterday, President Donald J. Trump’s national security advisor gave hints on what the president’s national security strategy will contain.
Source: NYT
Dec 2, 2017
In an open letter published on Friday by Hyperallergic, more than 120 academics and artists have urged Mayor Bill de Blasio to remove five public monuments and markers they say celebrate racism.
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
Dec 2, 2017
Richmond Virginia broke ground on the first phase of the Virginia Women’s Monument, Voices from the Garden.
Source: The Washington Post
Dec 1, 2017
In 1647 the Puritans banned Christmas in Boston because it was seen as nothing more than an unholy pagan ritual.
Source: The Chicago Maroon
Nov 30, 2017
The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA) held a “Rally for Reparations” in front of Levi Hall, the University’s main administrative building, urging the University to make amends for what they view as “its founding ties to slavery,” according to Kamm Howard, national male co-chair of N’COBRA.
Source: National Security Archive
Nov 30, 2017
With growing international concern today over the possible resort to nuclear means in connection with tensions over North Korea’s growing capabilities, it is instructive to look at the record of the Cold War and immediate post-Cold War period to see how U.S. presidents and senior government officials thought about the problem.
Source: NPR
Nov 30, 2017
By studying the bones of ancient women in Europe, archaeologists at the University of Cambridge have uncovered a hidden history of women's manual labor, from the early days of farming about 7,500 years ago up until about 2,000 years ago.
Source: Snopes
Nov 29, 2017
How wishing people "Happy holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" came to be regarded as an act of war.
Source: Newsweek
Nov 29, 2017
Archaeologists working in Russia’s Ural Mountains have uncovered a Paleolithic painting of a two-humped camel they believe could be up to 40,000 years old and may hold the secrets to early human migratory patterns.
Source: Crosscut
Nov 29, 2017
People are debating whether to replace the statue in Congress of missionary Marcus Whitman.
